Rice Cooked: U.N. Ambassador Pulls Out of Potential Secretary of State Nomination

Oh dear: following weeks of John McCain’s very angriest mumbling, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice has withdrawn her name from consideration for the Secretary of State job—a position to which she has not even been nominated, but has already been deemed unfit due to saying one wrong thing one time on television.

In a letter to Barack Obama, Rice wrote: “If nominated, I am now convinced that the confirmation process would be lengthy, disruptive and costly—to you and to our most pressing national and international priorities. That trade-off is simply not worth it to our country. . . Therefore, I respectfully request that you no longer consider my candidacy at this time.”